Baltimore Wecker

Der Baltimore Wecker
Cover of the November 4, 1872, issue of the Täglicher Baltimore Wecker
TypeDaily newspaper
Founder(s)Carl Heinrich Schnauffer
PublisherCarl Heinrich Schnauffer (1851-1854)

Elise Wilhelmina Schnauffer (1854-c.1859)

Wilhelm Schnauffer (c.1859-1899)
EditorSee List
Founded1851
Political alignmentRepublican Party
LanguageGerman
Ceased publication1877 as a daily (at least 1907 as a weekly)
HeadquartersBaltimore, Maryland, United States
OCLC number11592407

Der Baltimore Wecker was a daily paper published in the German language in Baltimore, Maryland. It was the object of violence in the civil unrest at Baltimore in April 1861 that produced the first bloodshed of the American Civil War.

Related titles for this paper were Täglicher Baltimore Wecker (“Daily Baltimore Wecker”), Wochenblatt des Baltimore Wecker (“Weekly Baltimore Wecker”), and Baltimore Wecker: Sonntags-Blatt (“Sunday Baltimore Wecker”).[1]

  1. ^ "About Täglicher Baltimore Wecker. (Baltimore [Md.]) 1867-1877". Library of Congress: Chronicling America.